warranty thing I am guessing?New drive shaft going in next Friday. Glad to get this done and over with.
I THINK the monoblock is also called the carrier bearing. it is the "U" shaped section somewhere along the middle of the driveshaft. I dont own a gladiator so I am just going from memory on other posts here.Dropped off at 9:30 and still here at 10:30. Was watching the removal from about 30 yards because of not being allowed in shop for obvious reasons.... noticed dead blow hammer being used for removal. Old drive shaft out...few shop personnel show up and converge by rear axle... a few shrugs from different ones and then the vice grips come out....as well as a spray can of what appeared to possibly be some type of penetrating oil/break free...one guy, two guys, three guys later...”Something is broke” saying to my self while adding some adult descriptive words... more shop personnel arrived to look at it and all walked away after what appeared to be “words of wisdom” passed amongst them... came back inside to customer lounge to cool down and make post. Thinking one of the bolts that secure the driveshaft to the pinion yoke has gotten snapped off... MTF
###update. About 20 minutes went by after the above and was told JT was all better. Service advisor never mentioned any issues so being the inquisitive type that i am, i asked if any thing got/was broken during the process and he responds “not that i was told”. So i asked it i could get pictures of “monoblock” that was not greased, was told no. So i asked if someone could tell me the specifics of the part of the DS that was “ungreased” and after talking to 5 different techs, including shop foreman, not one person new WtF was ungreased. They could only say” we just order and replace as per the recall. We don’t know anything else”. Do tell!!! Anyways, the recall has been completed, new hardware was installed and i did crawl up under and check things out before i left. Think that pissed’em off as well. I just wanna know the affected part so i can be better informed, not to cause hate and discontent. Someone, somewhere knows.